[NEWS] Ukraine Can’t Win the War

[TheButcher]

"France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère)."


"The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine."


https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-se ... ttlefront/



Macron is playing with fire, he's going get those troops killed and drag the war outside of Ukraine's borders. What are 100 or 1,500 troops going to do?

[BrasSmonkey]

butch i think this is a tactic to ensure they don't lose it all. they will not go to the frontline....

[donnie]

Get ready WW3 is coming to a home near you, will these leaders stop escalating the fucking war in Ukraine.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-annou ... 31240.html


"Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine.

After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory strikes on British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.

The remarks came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The drills are a response to “provocative statements and threats of certain Western officials regarding the Russian Federation,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

It was the first time Russia has publicly announced drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, although its strategic nuclear forces regularly hold exercises. Tactical nuclear weapons include air bombs, warheads for short-range missiles and artillery munitions and are meant for use on a battlefield. They are less powerful than the strategic weapons — massive warheads that arm intercontinental ballistic missiles and are intended to obliterate entire cities.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric expressed concern that various parties have been talking about issues regarding nuclear weapons more and more recently.

“Current nuclear risks are at an alarmingly high level,” Dujarric said. “All actions that could lead to miscalculation, escalation with catastrophic consequences, must be avoided.”

The Russian announcement was a warning to Ukraine’s Western allies about becoming more deeply engaged in the 2-year-old war, where the Kremlin's forces have gained an upper hand amid Ukraine's shortage of manpower and weapons. Some of Ukraine’s Western partners have previously expressed concern that the conflict could spill beyond Ukraine into a war between NATO and Russia.

French President Emmanuel Macron repeated last week that he doesn’t exclude sending troops to Ukraine, and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Kyiv’s forces will be able to use British long-range weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Some other NATO countries providing weapons to Kyiv have balked at that possibility.

The Kremlin branded those comments as dangerous, heightening tension between Russia and NATO. The war already has placed significant strain on relations between Moscow and the West.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Macron’s recent statement and other remarks by British and U.S. officials had prompted the nuclear drills.

“It’s a new round of escalation,” Peskov said, referring to what the Kremlin regarded as provocative statements. “It’s unprecedented and requires special attention and special measures.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned both the French and British ambassadors. It urged the British ambassador “to think about the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps from London."

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said the nuclear exercises “contribute to increasing instability.”

“In the current security situation, Russia’s actions may be considered particularly irresponsible and reckless,” Billström told Swedish news agency TT.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council that's chaired by Putin, said in his typically hawkish fashion that the comments by Macron and Cameron risked pushing the nuclear-armed world toward a “global catastrophe.”

It wasn’t the first time Europe’s military support for Ukraine has prompted nuclear saber-rattling. In March 2023, after the U.K.’s decision to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing shells containing depleted uranium, Putin said he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine neighbor Belarus.

The ministry said the exercise is intended to “increase the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to fulfill combat tasks” and will be held on Putin’s orders. The maneuvers will involve missile units of the Southern Military District along with the air force and the navy, it said.

The Russian announcement stirred little reaction in Ukraine, where the spokesman for the Military Intelligence agency, Andrii Yusov, said on national television: “Nuclear blackmail is a usual practice of Putin’s regime; it does not constitute major news.”

Western officials have blamed Russia for threatening a wider war through provocative acts. NATO countries said last week they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance’s soil, accusing Moscow of being behind them and saying they represent a security threat.

Peskov dismissed those claims as “new, unfounded accusations leveled at our country.”

Germany said Monday it recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged computer hack of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones hit two vehicles Monday in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing six people and injuring 35 others, including two children, local authorities said. The area has been hit by Kyiv’s forces in recent months.

One of the vehicles was a minibus carrying farm workers, Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

It was not possible to independently confirm the report.

While Ukraine’s army is largely pinned down on the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line due to a shortage of troops and ammunition after more than two years of fighting, it has used its long-range firepower to hit targets deep inside Russia.

In what has largely been a war of attrition, Russia also has relied heavily on long-range missile, artillery and drones to wreak damage on Ukraine.

The Kremlin's forces kept up their bombardment of Ukraine's power grid, with a nighttime Russian drone attack targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s northern region of Sumy. Multiple towns and villages in the region, including Sumy, lost power, regional authorities said.

Russia attacked Ukrainian targets with 13 Shahed drones overnight, 12 of which were intercepted in the Sumy region, Ukraine’s air force said."

[BrasSmonkey]

donnie that is bullshit.... both sides are getting outside supplies

[tacnet]

The day we back down to Putin because he threatens us with nukes is the day we give up the world to authoritarianism

[BrasSmonkey]

The day we back down to Putin because he threatens us with nukes is the day we give up the world to authoritarianism

you keep saying backing down... putin should have just cut the oil to the eu and plugged up german oil going through the ukraine. he can still fuck their asses over!!!! i would not give them another barrel!!!! avoiding nuclear war is not backing down. the ukraine is fucked....

[vblogger]

The day we back down to Putin because he threatens us with nukes is the day we give up the world to authoritarianism

you keep saying backing down... putin should have just cut the oil to the eu and plugged up german oil going through the ukraine. he can still fuck their asses over!!!! i would not give them another barrel!!!! avoiding nuclear war is not backing down. the ukraine is fucked....

He’s not selling oil to Europe we put sanctions on it so did Europe

[BrasSmonkey]

The day we back down to Putin because he threatens us with nukes is the day we give up the world to authoritarianism

you keep saying backing down... putin should have just cut the oil to the eu and plugged up german oil going through the ukraine. he can still fuck their asses over!!!! i would not give them another barrel!!!! avoiding nuclear war is not backing down. the ukraine is fucked....

He’s not selling oil to Europe we put sanctions on it so did Europe

think sir before a reply...
According to the data provider Kpler, Russia is now the EU's second-biggest LNG supplier. LNG imports from Russia accounted for 16% of the EU's total LNG supply in 2023, a 40% increase compared with the amount Russia sold to the EU in 2021.Apr 29, 2024

[vblogger]

you keep saying backing down... putin should have just cut the oil to the eu and plugged up german oil going through the ukraine. he can still fuck their asses over!!!! i would not give them another barrel!!!! avoiding nuclear war is not backing down. the ukraine is fucked....

He’s not selling oil to Europe we put sanctions on it so did Europe

think sir before a reply...
According to the data provider Kpler, Russia is now the EU's second-biggest LNG supplier. LNG imports from Russia accounted for 16% of the EU's total LNG supply in 2023, a 40% increase compared with the amount Russia sold to the EU in 2021.Apr 29, 2024

That is news to me what happened to all the sanctions, banning Russian crude and gas...........

[BrasSmonkey]

He’s not selling oil to Europe we put sanctions on it so did Europe

think sir before a reply...
According to the data provider Kpler, Russia is now the EU's second-biggest LNG supplier. LNG imports from Russia accounted for 16% of the EU's total LNG supply in 2023, a 40% increase compared with the amount Russia sold to the EU in 2021.Apr 29, 2024

That is news to me what happened to all the sanctions, banning Russian crude and gas...........

that is a different beast. the oil saves lives.

[tacnet]

Yes there is a small amount of LNG that is sneaking in through the back door but its a drop in the ocean and a loophole that is about to be closed. Remember the EU was Russia's BIGGEST customer when it came to oil and gas but they stopped buying it when the war broke out. And that was no mean feat when you consider that countries like Germany, France and Italy were getting most of their oil and gas from Russia at the time

Putin is loosing this war. This was supposed to be a 3 week "special military operation" and its now in its 3rd year. And for the last 6 months Ukraine has been starved of weapons and ammunition and the most Russia could do was push forward a kilometer or two. They are taking MASSIVE casualties but you wont hear about it because Putin has full control over all Russian media

Almost the entire western world is united in standing up to Putin and they are not going to back down simply because Putin is threatening to use nukes. To do so would be geo-political suicide

[BrasSmonkey]

tacman we disagree on most topics.... i think you are a great biz man... you say shit that is just not true...

[BrasSmonkey]

[DeSexGuide]

WW3 inches closer by the day

[BrasSmonkey]

WW3 inches closer by the day

for the ukraine? you are crazy!!! you send nato now china and north korea and in.... then we have a fallout real life video game... most of the planet would die...


Sending NATO troops into Ukraine would result in an escalated conflict that would be “highly dangerous,” the Kremlin warned Wednesday, after a petition posted to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's website called for the country to request troops from the alliance—though the petition is unofficial and NATO has ..